Hezbe Wahdat

Hezbe Wahdat is a Shia Islamist political party in Afghanistan, founded in 1989. The party, representing the Hazaras of central Afghanistan, emerged as a major party in Kabul during the 1990s, and it became a party dominated by political Islamist Hazaras who had been involved in the Mujahideen during the Soviet-Afghan War. Abdul Ali Mazari was the party's most influential leader, and he was murdered by the Taliban in 1995 during the Afghan Civil War. By 2016, the party had fractured into several smaller factions.